From: Eugeniy Paltsev <eugeniy.palt...@synopsys.com> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2018 15:05:37 +0300
> As for today STMMAC_ALIGN macro (which is used to align DMA stuff) > relies on L1 line length (L1_CACHE_BYTES). > This isn't correct in case of system with several cache levels > which might have L1 cache line length smaller than L2 line. This > can lead to sharing one cache line between DMA buffer and other > data, so we can lose this data while invalidate DMA buffer before > DMA transaction. > > Fix that by using SMP_CACHE_BYTES instead of L1_CACHE_BYTES for > aligning. > > Signed-off-by: Eugeniy Paltsev <eugeniy.palt...@synopsys.com> This is definitely an improvement, so applied and queued up for -stable. There is also dma_get_cache_alignment(), so maybe we can eventually use that here instead. _______________________________________________ linux-snps-arc mailing list linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-snps-arc
